The 69th Annual Orange County Science and Engineering Fair (OCSEF) celebrated its winners on Sunday, March 10 at Chapman University. Starting from August of last year, students were invited to submit their STEM projects for OCSEF 2024. This year, over 1,000 students from across Orange County participated, which was a 22% increase from last year …
OCSEF hosts a series of workshops designed to guide students, grades 6 through 12, to complete a science research or engineering design project and enter it into the 2024 Orange County Science and Engineering Fair. The series is designed for students with no prior science/engineering fair experience and for students who want additional guidance on …
Students and Educators — Check out the videos from the 2023 OCSEF summer workshops on picking a STEM topic for your science fair project. Each video is about 40 minutes in length. “How to Choose a Science Project – Getting an Idea for a Topic!” Explore a variety of science fair topics to identify topics that …
The Orange County Science and Engineering Fair is sponsored by The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Dr. Arnold Beckman’s interest in science began when he was 9 years old after he found a chemistry book in the family attic. Beckman ended up inventing the modern electronic pH meter and the Spectrophotomer, which, accrording to him, …
Society for Science and Broadcom Foundation announced the Top 300 competitors in the 2022 Broadcom MASTERS® — the nation’s premier STEM competition for middle school students. Five Orange County Science and Engineering Fair students were named to this prestigious group. Broadcom MASTERS is a competition for sixth to eighth grade students designed to inspire and …
Orange County Science and Engineering Fair announces Mark Menaker and Vy Nguyen as the 2022 OCSEF Broadcom Coding with Commitment winners. The two middle-school students have shown excellence in their projects’ subject choices and presentations, in an inspiring interest in community problem solving. Mark Menaker, an 8th grader from Rancho San Joaquin Middle school, took the first …
Welcome to OCSEF’s “How-to” videos library. We have recorded these videos as tutorials for the whole process of registering your project for OCSEF 2022. Please click on the titles below to watch the videos (via YouTube). 1. How to create an Initial Project Screening application 2. Project description – Good vs Bad example 3. How to …
Don’t miss out our Raspberry Pi 101 Introduction Zoom session hosted by Mr. Omar Shepherd from the Orange County Department of Education. Date: November 12, 2021Time: 6:00 to 8:00 PMRegister Here Mr. Omar Shepherd is an experienced Educational Leader with a passion for STEM and a demonstrated history of working in collaborative teams. He is …
In a large virtual event for the 2nd year running, OCSEF announced the 2021 winners in 20 categories. See the full list of winners Over 300 students attended the 2021 Orange County Science & Engineering Fair closing ceremony on Sunday, March 28. In addition to the winners in OCSEF’s regular categories, OCSEF announced winners in …
Please save the date, Wednesday, March 24, between 2:00 to 6:00 PM for our OCSEF 2021 virtual judging.Students’ 15 minutes judging time will be assigned and communicated by March 23rd via the email provided to us in their applications.